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skitungen - Längre Än Långtån | RUBBER 009

A1 – inga dRömmaR kvaR
A2 – jag viLL baRa ha aLLt
B1 –  OOOAAAOOO
B2 – Jag SpiLLeR Ut Min Tid På Dig

Vinyl / digital: https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/la-ngre-a-n-la-ngta-n
Distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item69522.html

Rubber welcomes Swedish artist Towa Isling (towLie) under her skitungen alias. While some of you might be familiar with distorted drums and seething synth lines from the käfTen records founder, her skitungen project emits a more brazen energy. Längre än Långtån embodies Towa’s raw and DIY approach, but takes an unexpected turn towards the odd and dreamy. This results in a beautiful assembly combining Towa’s ethereal voice with satisfying weirdo beat music.
The 7inch, pressed on Rubber’s signature high quality white vinyl, is accompanied by a cover designed by Berlin-based multi media artist Puck Verkade. 

Music: Towa Isling @towlie
Mastering: Kamilė Rimkutė @caline-with-c
Illustration: Puck Verkade
Design: Ruben Verkuylen
Text: Thomas van Linge

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skitungen - Längre Än Långtån | RUBBER 010

''Through consumption and entertainment' is the latest full-length compilation from the Sons of Traders label in collaboration with Mutant Radio. It features a gritty cast of affiliates of label owners Mike Tansella jr. and TANS who curate this release. Alys sets the scene with "EMX Tube Gain" featuring powerful distorted subs building up to atmospheric stabs and haunting harmonies. It's followed by Asymmetrical's hypnotic banger "Mistake at work" fully equipped with lasers, syrupy synths, and pounding kicks. Amsterdam's Bertram nudges the tempo up with the punchy "Clabo den bo caha di morto", a dusty take on electronica that means 'nail in your coffin' in his native Aruban language. Providing a momentary cleanse is Bill Converse through syncopated acid lines tied together by modulating pads and 909-like thuds on "System fun". Chris Mitchell returns to the label and delivers an insidious chugger that gradually reveals its sinister scorched-earth side with "Top 40 dancefloor".

"Down in the park" takes no prisoners and is a kaleidoscopic electro banger fitted with a droney synth and crunchy drums brought to us by London-based Chupacabras. Belarus' Elena Sizova slows things down with "G.S.V2", a psychedelic downtempo trip that inspires reflection and melancholy. "Foundation guilt" is a rolling acid bomb with watery lines and vocal samples by Berlin-based Jaundice that is coming to a dancefloor near you. JT Whitefield raises the temperature further with "Dead beat", an industrial behemoth with evocative strings over a seared wall of rhythm and textures. "A secret" sees Kosmik deliver an unforgiving acid thumper that tunnels through the body with rolling drums, subtle delayed vocal cuts, and distorted claps.

Prague-based Malachi Constant furthers the second half with the adventurous and aquatic "Whale Hunt", which packs massive 808s and intriguing passages that pull you into the abyss. "Monitor eyes" is a narcotic cut by Midnight Climax with wooden and metallic percussions accompanied by fleeting samples and lasers that leave room for the drone to roam free. The next track comes from O:M:E:N, who stuns the body with "SBTMSK", a distorted goa-inspired gem with ravey elements and piston-like hats and claps. Also returning to the label is the Detroit-native Robert E. Livingood with a hypnotic interstellar soundscape on what sounds like a 9/8 tempo.

Immagine del profilo di bertramovic_

Sons of Traders bless this release with their classic proto-inspired sound full of hard-hitting drums, synth-driven rhythm lines, and ominous vocal samples through "La repressione". Fresh off a recent album release on the label, the Russian producer Stas Zavyalov drops another relentless analog-powered bomb with "JSR 1202". TLXCO sets the scene in the closing moments with a spacey acid trip that sucks the listener into the void with "Don't talk to me". Closing off is veteran producer Vinilette with driving dark synths, gothic bells, and electro-tinted drums with "Nightmare".

Bertram
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bertram-croes
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bertrammmartreb/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bertramovic_/

SONS OF TRADERS RECORDS
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mike-tansella-jr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sonsoftraders
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sons_of_traders/

THROUGH CONSUMPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT

PREMIERE: Bertram - Clabo Den Bo Caha Di Morto (SONS OF TRADERS RECORDS)

Voluminous Arts happily announces its third official release, a 12 track digital album and accompanying 3xLP limited 3 color vinyl edition entitled “Disco” by Gavilán Rayna Russom’s elusive alias Black Meteoric Star. 

This is not a Disco record. The title deliberately troubles the music biz’s incessant tendency to hierarchize genre classification over the experience of listening. If you must categorize these mutant sounds think of them as a proposed alternate score for those long, caffeinated sessions in Abby Sciuto’s forensics lab, the soundtrack to a heavy workout in the Westchester Danger Room or perhaps the musical accompaniment to deep body investigations of your own ancestral memories. 

What this record really is, and why it’s called “Disco” has to do with the layering of time and life energy present in the spaces where we have traditionally danced to music which are sometimes called Discos. From the pounding urgency of “Muscle Machine” through the unbridled night vision romp that is “Fluid Feline Forms” and the shimmering investigations of “Whispers Between Worlds” to the extended lazer pointer focus of “I’m Unmelting” this record lays out a broad slab of practice-based research into the ghosts we connect with on the dance floor. Whether it be through partying in former industrial buildings, contested spaces of labor built on lands violently appropriated from indigenous people, uncomfortably inhabiting vacuums in queerness left by the AIDS epidemic, lifting lineages through sampling, or the relentless cycle of whitening that accompanies dance music’s march into the market, our experiences in the Disco have been permeated by the spectral and the haunted. Through rhythm and frequency, organized over time, this music blurs the veil between the living and the dead inviting those who move to it to connect with experiences beyond that false binary. 

What you have here is another fantastic Black Meteoric Star record, as always made without multitracking or overdubbing, recorded directly from single live takes. It is is utterly consistent with all that name has come to mean, but on “Disco” Black Meteoric Star’s vision has been allowed to expand into an almost mythologically epic space. Ancestral time works differently. Settle in and absorb the frequencies. As the closing track suggests, the virtual Disco these sounds evoke is for “Freaks Only”.

Disco

Muscle Machine

Black Meteoric Star - Muscle Machine

Artist: Krishna Goineau (Liaisons Dangereuses) feat. MCL
Track: Silent Servant Edit - La Dance
Release: 80's Tapes
Cat: IMO11
Label: ITALO MODERNI
Release date: 4 November
Format: VINYL + Digital
Pre-order: https://italomoderni.bandcamp.com/album/krishna-goineau-liaisons-dangereuses-feat-mcl-80s-tapes

DT PREMIERE: Krishna Goineau Feat. MCL - La Dance (Silent Servant Edit) [Italo Moderni] (2022)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/andateyka
Track: Megaknast
Label: https://soundcloud.com/macadam-mambo
Format: Vinyl 12" LP
Release date: 23/02/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/F4YJ6miJnQI

Hambourg’s electro duo Fallbeil composed by Wosto and Kluentah, is still pretty unknown despite they’ve been releasing a bunch of EP and a couple of LP on label like Mannequin, Killekill sub-label Boidae or New York Haunted and more recently on their own label Teerpappe to name a few. Wosto, long time Macadam Mambo’s collaborater (Danzas Electricas vol. 2 & 3), sent us demos of what sounds very like « what Drexciya would realease on Bunker Records », a compilation of irresistible dark atmospheres slow electro tunes with very raw textures, complemented by few little skits to generate a brilliant album around the story of the Mockturtle. It’s rought as it should be!

releases March 23, 2023
Composed & produced by Fallbeil
Executive producer, artwork, Layout : Sacha Mambo
Mastered by Ruud Lekx aka Rude 66
Distribution : Rubadub, Syncrophone

PREMIERE | Fallbeil - Megaknast [Macadam Mambo] 2023

https://soundcloud.com/naor-dayan
https://soundcloud.com/osare-editions
🛒 https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe-018-v-a-the-male-body-will-be-next-pt2
🔊 https://youtu.be/mQAhrPPJSCw

Following on from the celebrated first instalment, the second part of The Male Body Will Be Next compiles an entourage of daring sonic experiments, composed in response to bell hooks’ landmark book The Will to Change. Prompting artists and musicians to envision cross-gender solidarity, Osàre! Editions founder Elena Colombi presents an enrapturing, narrative album, conceptualised around collective transformation.

Resonating with hooks’ challenge to men to reclaim the sensitivity that patriarchy denies them, the name of the record arises from a photograph by Peter de Potter and Rebecca Salvadori’s film of the same title. In these depictions, naked flesh is exposed, made vulnerable and trembles with emotion as the fragility of masculine bodies are examined through the queer and female oppositional gaze. Transforming this visual language into musical expression, The Male Body Will Be Next swirls with punk vitriol, electrified noise, acid, electro and free-wheeling encounters charged by love, lust and limerence.

Gently plunking chords signal Pose Diva’s reimagining of lover’s rock before Sissy Fuss smashes in with a heavy-weight instrumental version of their erotic anthem ‘No Restraint’.
Made up of Turkish musician Etkin Çekin and Belarussian songstress Galina Ozeran, God is God delivers a gentle lullaby, while Low End Activist flirts with dark and brooding bass, shattering penetrating frequencies into luminous fragments. Riffing off the 2020 documentary about female early electronica pioneers, Loma Doom crafts a slowly oscillating drone zenith, the ultimate climax. In line with the conceptual underpinning, there are plenty of collaborations – Daytripper’s Riva and Sitar player Tommy Khosla, Lebanese experimentalist NAR and Swiss-French producer John Silvestre (AKA Typhon), as well as Colombi herself and trans author/activist Juno Roche. Within these partnerships, new modalities come alive as mediums, practices and perspectives are ignited and pushed in otherworldly, metamorphic directions. 

Tracklist:

A1 Sepehr - Twilight Calls
A2 Sissy Fuss - No Restraint (Instrumental)
A3 God Is God - Na Gore More (Dub Edit)
A4 Alex Loveless - Voicenote
A5 Suemori - Kisou
A6 Mari Herzer - Limbal Ring 
A7 Elena Colombi ft. Juno Roche - Lost In a City
A8 Loma Doom - SisterResister
A9 Decha - Mujeres
B1 Pose Dia - Lovers Rock
B2 Low End Activist - Need To Know (Blue Room Version)
B3 Decha - Wir Sind Da
B4 Mayurashka - Libra Man
B5 Nâr & John Silvestre - Ensel Ham 
B6 E-Bony - Slow Machines
B7 Riva ft. Tommy Khosla - Resurfacing
B8 Anenon - Length-Of-Night (Improvisation)

Slow Machines

PREMIERE:  E-Bony - Slow Machines [Osàre! Editions]

LIES-195
Dissemblance-Couteau
from the upcoming "Centauresse" lp
To be released April 2023

Centauresse

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Patricia Kokett – Psykhe [Isla to Isla, 2023]

Patricia Kokett follows up two critically-acclaimed esoteric techno releases on Knekelhuis (Bizarr [2020], Diabel [2018]) with a new EP – Psykhe – to be released by Isla to Isla on the 25th of april 2023 as a 12” vinyl and digital.

Psykhe sees Lithuanian musician and composer Gediminas Jakubka continuing to explore his own distinct sound, but taking it in a new direction: a step away from the euphoric new age dance floor and into a significantly murkier, more precarious territory. Psykhe is meant as a sonic simulacrum of the artist's psyche during the pandemic – a quickened mind bred by a decelerated world. In that and other senses, the record is a modern take on the ‘80s/’90s Detroit ethos of dance music created for an illusory dance floor.

Incidentally (or not!), Psykhe is much more electro-based and darker – intent on delivering catharsis, but not euphoria.

@patriciakaas

releases April 25, 2023

Patricia Kokett - Eunuchy [ITILP001]

On 26 February, hundreds of Israeli settlers went on a violent late-night rampage in Huwara and other villages in the northern West Bank, leaving one local resident dead and 100 others injured and the town ablaze.

This compilation of music was put together in order to raise funds that can hopefully give some aid to the residents of Huwara, all of the proceeds Confused Machines make from digital sales will go directly to Physicians For Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) www.phr.org.il An NGO that works in the occupied Palestinian territory, promoting Palestinians' right to health and providing direct medical and humanitarian assistance.

The compilation hosts a roster of both local and international artists spanning a wide spectrum of leftfield electronic music. Acid, Drone, Noise, Downtempo, Techno, SoundCollage and more.
All of these tracks are new and have not been heard before, many of them have been created with Huwara and Palestine in mind.

Though we know our reach is limited, we see this as a part of a bigger political effort to help raise awareness in our artistic circles and set motion to positive forces in dark times.
Bandcamp: 
https://confusedmachines.bandcamp.com/album/for-huwara-cm21
Soundcloud:
@confused-machines
Chris Mitchell:
@feralcolony

PREMIERE: Chris Mitchell - Fanatics Franchise [Confused Machines]

Why i’m Attracted to You (Tribute to Aryana J)

Building new worlds through trans-centered experimental creativity.
Established by Gavilán Rayna Russom.

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